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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Feeling through fingertips
Tactile
Latin layer of language
Derivative
Criterion-Referenced Test
2. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development
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3. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek
Open Syllable
Three Layers of Language
Phonemic Awareness
VV
4. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test
Attention
Middle English
Academic Achievement Tests
Reliability
5. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Quadrigraph
Matthew Effect
Prefix
6. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.
Criterion-Referenced Test
Accuracy
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Curriculum referenced tests
7. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program
Percentile
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Synthetic Instruction
IDEA
8. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"
Texas Education Code 38.003
Adolf Kusmaul
Phonics approach
Suffix
9. A word that is immediately recognized as a whole and does not require decoding to identify. A sight word may or may not be phonetically regular.
Sight Words
Battery
ESL
Components of Reading Instruction
10. His research in the field of reading was fundamental to the emergence of today's scientific consensus about what reading is - how it works and what it does for the mind.
Cognitive Assessment
Keith Stanovich
Universal Screening
Norm-Referenced Test
11. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.
Accuracy
Analytic
Components of Reading Instruction
Greek layer of language
12. A standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired - usually as a result of classroom instruction. Such testing produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learn
Towre
Achievement test
Curriculum referenced tests
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
13. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)
Consonant
Quadrigraph
MSLE
Texas Education Code 38.003
14. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
IEP
Standard score
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
15. Multisensory Structured Language Education
Greek layer of language
MSLE
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Pre-English
16. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others
Expressive language
Syntax
ESL
CTOPP
17. A score that describes student performance in terms of the statistical performance of an average student at a given grade level. Ranges from K.0 to 12.9 Are not a dependable representation of progress
ALTA
Orthography
Grade equivalents
Receptive language
18. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Synthetic Instruction
Composite Score
WRAT
19. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.
Curriculum referenced tests
Ability
Accuracy
Standard Scores
20. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.
Analytic
Chall's Stage 4
V-e
Composite Score
21. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words
GORT
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Whole Language
Composite Score
22. Participate in classroom discussions - make speeches/presentations - use tape records during lectures - read text out loud - create musical jingles - create mnemonics to aid memorization - discuss ideas verbally
Latin layer of language
Top-down Reading Approach
Texas Education Code 38.003
Auditory Learners
23. Individual Educational Plan
Profile
IEP
MSL
Standard Scores
24. r-controlled syllable
Vr
Raw score
ADHD
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
25. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)
Chall's Stage 0
Matthew Effect
VV
Universal Screening
26. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin
Vowel
IMSLEC
Great Vowel Shift
Profile
27. State Board of Eduation
Modification
CTOPP
Consonant Digraph
SBOE
28. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.
Progress Monitoring
Grapheme
Phonemic Awareness
Modern English
29. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language
Vowel Digraph
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Anna Gillingham
Three Layers of Language
30. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language
Derived Score
IEP
Social language
Syntax
31. Vowel - consonant - e syllable
Chall's Stage 1
Norm-Referenced Test
Mastery level
V-e
32. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.
Phonology
Modification
Achievement test
Grapheme
33. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds
Diagnostic Teaching
Linguistic Method
Reading Comprehension Support
Chall's Stage 2
34. Multisensory Structured Language
Anna Gillingham
Chall's Stage 3
MSL
Ability
35. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Matthew Effect
ADHD
Standard deviation
Derived Score
36. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies
Grade equivalents
Components of Reading Instruction
Phonemic/ decodable words
Percentile
37. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag
Anna Gillingham
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
The Norman Conquest
38. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability
Simultaneous teaching
WIATII
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Prefix
39. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT
Auditory Processing
Simultaneous teaching
Standardized test
Stanine Scores
40. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.
Fluency
Morphology
Composite Score
MSL
41. Tests used to identify the nature and source of an individual's educational - psychological - or medical difficulties or disabilities in order to facilitate correction or remediation.
Diagnostic tests
Accent
Macron
Funding
42. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet
Letter naming Chart
NICHD
Quadrigraph
Kinesthetic
43. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.
Morpheme
Syllable
Syntax
Chall's Stage 0
44. 1904 - reported 2 cases of "congenital word blindness" - called for schools to establish procedures for screening as well as appropriate teaching of those that were identified with congenital word-blindness
Base Word
James Hinshelwood
Consonant
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
45. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.
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46. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view
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47. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Consonant Digraph
Raw score
Frank Smith
Funding
48. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -
Raw score
Rate
Auditory Processing
Middle English
49. Is a type of test - assessment - or evaluation which yields an estimate of the position of the tested individual in a predefined population - with respect to the trait being measured. This estimate is derived from the analysis of test scores and poss
Norm-Referenced Test
Battery
Curriculum referenced tests
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
50. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.
Syllable Instruction
Combination
Age equivalent
Texas Education Code 28.06